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Title:  Re-energizing Your Preschool Storytime: New Ideas for Busy Children's Staff

Format:  Webinar

Date: Thursday, December 2, 2010

Start Time:          Noon, Pa cific Time

1:00 pm, Mountain Time

2:00 pm, Central Time

3:00 pm, Eastern Time

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For more information and to participate in the December 2 webinar, go to http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/452/index.html

It's Monday morning, AGAIN! Time to get your storytime ready for the week. Ho Hum. You could always recycle a previous storytime or... you can jazz up your repertoire with new fingerplays, flannels, puppets and book suggestions.

Try something new!

. Learn how to use Readers Theater and bring your story alive with the help of your audience. A dramatic read aloud of a story is great for children's communication skills, collaboration skills and learning to use expression.

Make better connections with storytime parents!

. Set up a "Stay and Play" after your storytime. Learn how to plan developmentally appropriate activities and share early literacy information with your participants Does this mean parents? If so, I think it would be clearer if it said parents, since the participants are really the children. It's reference, but you're just not sitting behind a desk.

Save time!

. We sure don't have enough. Let this webinar help you refresh your love of storytime and provide you with new material. You won't have to spend time planning, just get out there and try out these fresh new ideas!

At the end of this one-hour webinar, attendees will learn about:

. New examples of traditional storytime elements; including puppets, fingerplays, books, flannels and music

. Readers theater; bring your stories to life with the help of your audience

. "Parent Patter" - a technique your storytime parents will appreciate

. "Stay and Play" - an innovative approach on how to extend your storytime fun

This webinar will be of interest to storytime presenters and others engaging in preparing and presenting programs for children.

Speaker:  Colleen Willis.  Colleen has spent the last eleven years working as a children's librarian for the Anaheim Public Library. She got her start in storytelling because she can imitate a pig snort that can be heard all the way from the back of the room. That and her excellent puppetry skills were enough to hook her on children's storytimes.  Her main objective as an instructor is to motivate her fellow storytellers to inspire families with the joys of storytelling and to help them to become life-long library users.

If you are unable to attend the live event, you can access the archived version the day following the webinar.  Check our archive listing at:

http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/list/archived       

Webinar: Re-energizing Your Preschool Storytime: New Ideas for Busy Children's Staff

Date: Thursday, December 2, 2010

Time:     Noon, Pacific Time

1:00 pm, Mountain Time

2:00 pm, Central Time

3:00 pm, Eastern Time

Speaker: Colleen Willis

This Information has been forwarded by:

Susan Hanks

Library Programs Consultant

Library Development Services, California State Library

900 N Street

Sacramento, CA  95814

916-653-0661     fax 916-653-8443

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